Google Chrome is a wonderful browser to use in China when it works. And, actually, I should restate that: "Chrome is a wonderful browser at Sias when it works." Though in all fairness, Chinese websites load at almost lightning speed. Google, because of its very free ideas, is not on China's good list, and so it often gets delayed trying to jump over the "great wall." And, thus, the translate feature does not work.
And that is all important because of another issue. For some reason I thought I was already running Windows 8.1. I felt certain that I would have updated to that when I was in America this past winter. But I kept seeing opportunities to upgrade for free, and I finally investigated. I should have responded as I would have to almost every other abnormally large update (this one is over 3.5gb) and delayed the inevitable until it was inevitable. I did not. I was trusting, and now I am back in the learning curve of Windows 8 newbies and am also having to reload drivers.
The main driver that I am missing at this moment is for my inkjet printer. I started my search for it using baidu (China's version of Google) and had little success until I remembered that I had used the Chinese Canon website just two months ago (having not found the driver on the U.S. website), and Chrome was able to navigate me successfully through all the language. And what a perfect solution to a problem such as this when Chrome, being Chrome in China (or in Sias), could not translate. Knowing the driver was buried somewhere in the website, I copied and pasted text into Google Translate on a separate web page. It was laborious, but I finally got to the last page, the one where you have several drop down menus and have to choose the type of product, model name and number, and file. And then, just as I was picking and choosing and trying different options (since you can't select text on the drop down menus - or, at least, I don't know how), wouldn't you know it? Chrome translator started to work. I give thanks to Dad for that one. Strange that I never thought to ask Him to help out, but He provided just the same.
30 minutes later: driver installed; items printed; happy me.
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